Outlook improves for oil industry hopeful signs in June
Tulsa reports show gasol ine inquiry and movement rising with the best outlook of the year. Refiners voice higher wholesale gasoline prices and possible tank car price increases as Memorial holiday demand supports summer activity. Crude stocks are being trimmed through curtailment, with 1938 drilling lagging behind 1937 as completions total 11,030 year to date.
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Tulsa
Okla
Oil and Gas Journal
McCormick and Bride Begin Home Honeymoon in Pasadena
Harold Fowler reports 66 year old convalescent magnate Harold McCormick and his 84 year old nurse Adah Wilson began a quiet home honeymoon at McCormick’s sister’s guarded Pasadena estate. Dr James W Fifield Jr officiated in a private ceremony watched by the couple’s parents and two physicians.
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Pasadena
Calif
Harold Fowler McCormick
Adah Wilson
McCormick
James W. Fifield, Jr
First Congregational Church of
Los Angeles
Ward Wilson
Shoshone
Ida
Edith Rockefeller
Madame Ganna Walska
Miss Wilson
Jean Harlow
Harvester
Milwaukee Alderman Collects Typewriters for Museum Exhibit
Alderman Carl P. Dietz curates a public museum display of old typewriters. His latest acquisitions came via an exchange with Arthur Brehm of Siegmar Schonau Germany, head of a typewriter maker. Dietz added 10 European models in exchange for 14 duplicates in his American collection.
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Milwaukee
Carl P. Dietz
Arthur Brehm
Siegmar- Schonau
Germany
Dietz
Logan Files for Treasurer in Kansas Nomination
A. W. Logan of Quenemo filed with Secretary of State Frank J. Ryan for the Republican nomination for state treasurer. Logan, former director of the state inspections and registration department, was first to file. Governor Rhodes said he would not seek re election.
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Logan
State Inspections and Registration Department
J. J. Rhodes
Roosevelt declines to discuss Iowa primary support
President Roosevelt refused to say yes or no on being consulted about Harry Hopkins endorsement of an Iowa senate candidate. He warned any answer would be read as backing one side, and he would not amplify his prior primary positions.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Harry Hopkins
Iowa
Hopkins
Representative Wearin
Gillette
Retirement for Bugler Frank Witchey at 30 years service
Staff Sgt. Frank Witchey the army’s most famous bugler retires after thirty years. His bugle sounded taps at the burial of the unknown soldier in 1920 on Armistice Day. He received honors May 19 with Maj. Gen. John J. Herr at a review of the Third Cavalry Fort Myer Virginia. He is a Kansas City native. Woman killed in crash near Elk City Kansas.
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Washington
Frank Witchey
Witchey
John J. Herr
Third Cavalry
Fort Myer
Kansas City
Kansas Democrats form Senior Democratic club leader John McMahon
Older Kansas Democrats formed the Senior Democratic club and elected John McMahon of Ellis as president. Membership is limited to party members over 45 years.
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Kansas
Democratic Club
John McMahon
Ellis
Hooser Injured After Car Strikes Pedestrian at Eighth and Massachusetts
A. L. Hooser, 38, of 721 Connecticut street, suffered minor cuts and bruises after being struck by a car driven by K. C. Campbell, 1001 West Hills drive. He was crossed the street at Eighth and Massachusetts, thrown through the windshield, treated at Memorial hospital, and released.
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A. L. Hooser
Connecticut Street
K. C. Campbell
West Hills Drive
Eighth
Massachusetts Street
Houser
Memorial Hospital
Farm prices fall to four-year low in May
The bureau of agricultural economics reports May farm prices at the lowest level in four years. Surpluses and weaker consumer demand from the recession have driven a 30 percent drop from a year ago. All major farm commodities participated in the decline.
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Washington
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
1 875 Killed at Crossings Washington
The Interstate Commerce Commission reports 1,875 people killed and 5,136 injured in railroad crossing accidents last year a casualty figure continuing since 1930 with totals and trend.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
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